Font Squirrel
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- dbloc
What fonts are actually legal to convert with this?
http://www.fontsquirrel.com/tool…
- PonyBoy0
check the license agreement for the font in question... each font is different
- PonyBoy0
^yep... still not illegal to convert fonts for web use though... again— check your license. Just because Font Squirrel is covering their ass doesn't mean you (your client) hasn't purchased the rights to use them online.
You will need to purchase font conversion software to convert something that FS will lock-out... simple fix that'll set you back somewhere around $100(US)
- PonyBoy0
I use FontXChange... solid app: http://www.fontgear.net/fontxcha…
- utopian2
Steal every last font from Hoefler & Co.
The same helmet who screwed his partner out of the font company and made his wife a partner!
- falcadia0
Yep, you'll eventually find a way to convert any font but be careful.
The top tier type foundries have a pack of lawyers just waiting pounce. If you put it up on a server for @font-face each visitor to the site technically downloads the font to their system. So you are illegally distributing copyrighted material. Then they'll try and come up with some number to extort you with based off of time & amount of traffic.
Def avoid if its a high profile site. Speaking from experience here.
- dbloc0
^ actually they could probably go into font file itself, but it would be harder to find the file.
- detritus0
If you are farting around illegally with unlicensed fonts on your website, I'd recommend getting a cheap font editor and making amends to the font itself - strip out unused glyphs, add some points in here and there to distinguish the forms (especially letters) from the originals and amend the display names.
That way there's no automatable way for Them to cotton on to your naughtiness.
Aside from anything, you can often reduce a font's weight by half or so, just from having removed glyphs you'd never use anyway.
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Obv. I'd not begin to recommend this for real and commercial projects, but it's handy for throwaway things and where a font has a grossly unreasonable subscription cost.
- technically speaking, the point modifications to your glyphs makes it a 'new font' which you're then free to do what you will..detritus
- ..although I'd not like to be first in line, telling that to one of Hoeflercunt's lawyers, if all I'd done was add a redundant point to each glyph.detritus
- Also - rename the actual font file. I'm always amazed when people don't bother to even do that.detritus
- ideaist0
If you can swing it, foundry's are starting to get into the subscription game (like every single other business on the planet) at some fairly responble prices:
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http://www.fonts.com/subscriptio…
$10 / Month
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http://www.typography.com/cloud/…
$99 / Year
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Just to name a few.
But, like detritus said above, on small projects their is little choice but to stick to the standards, OR break the rules a bit.
Godspeed dbloc.